Archives for September 2013

If people are not being told the truth about their problems, the majority not only may, but invariably must, make the wrong judgments.
—Robert G. Ingersoll (American Atheist Politician)

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
—Thomas Browne (English Christian Author)

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman “other” or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.
—Terry Eagleton

How important, often, is the pain of guilt, as a stimulant to amendment and reformation.
—John Foster Dulles (American Lawyer)

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.
—Charles A. Garfield

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

Simplicity is the glory of expression.
—Walt Whitman (American Poet)

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
—Harvey Samuel Firestone (American Businessperson)

The ancestor of every action is a thought.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
—Victor Hugo (French Novelist)

There is no road or ready way to virtue.
—Thomas Browne (English Christian Author)

The enemies of the truth are always awfully nice.
—Christopher Morley (American Journalist)

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.
—Giuseppe Mazzini (Italian Philosopher)

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
—Havelock Ellis (British Sexologist)

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
—Robert G. Ingersoll (American Atheist Politician)

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
—Denis Diderot (French Philosopher)

He who possesses virtue and intelligence, who is just, speaks the truth, and does what is his own business, him the world will hold dear.
—The Dhammapada (Buddhist Anthology of Verses)

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.
—Juvenal (Roman Poet)

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important aims of philosophy.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher)

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.
—Thomas Browne (English Christian Author)

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
—Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Writer)

Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.
—Gustave Flaubert (French Novelist)

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
—Marcel Proust (French Novelist)

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
—Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Writer)

Our entire life consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
—Jean Anouilh

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
—Thomas J. Watson (American Businessperson)

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
—Norman Cousins (American Journalist)

The more we reduce the size of our world, the more we shall be its master.
—Jacinto Benavente (Spanish Dramatists)

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.
—Juvenal (Roman Poet)

Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.
—Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Writer)

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.
—Roman Polanski (French Film Director)

I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.
—Thomas Browne (English Christian Author)

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
—Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Writer)

The strong man is strongest when alone.
—Friedrich Schiller (German Poet)